Steven Gow Calabresi (born 1958) is an American legal scholar who is the Clayton J. and Henry R. Barber Professor of Law at Northwestern University.
[2] During that time, he advised Attorney General Edwin Meese III, and Reagan Domestic Policy Chief T. Kenneth Cribb, and wrote campaign speeches for Vice President Dan Quayle.
[5][citation needed] In July 2020, Calabresi wrote a New York Times editorial condemning a tweet[6] by President Trump that floated postponing the 2020 election.
Calabresi said the tweet "frankly appalled" him, called it "fascistic", and said it was "itself grounds for the president’s immediate impeachment again by the House of Representatives and his removal from office by the Senate.
"[7] On January 13, 2021, Calabresi and Democrat Norman Eisen co-wrote an op-ed in The New York Times saying that President Trump should be charged and impeached in a second trial before the end of his term in office or immediately after for what he said and did on January 6 and for his effort to subvert Georgia's election results by asking the secretary of state "to find" enough votes for him to win the state.